View full sizeThe Associated PressIn a photo taken by a good Samaritan vessel owner, Joel Brady-Power, a U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Sitka Jayhawk helicopter hovers near Ryan Harris as the 19-year-old fisherman tries to stay upright in a blue fish bin Saturday near Sitka, Alaska.

An Alaska fisherman whose boat tipped Friday before the crew could call for help spent the night adrift in a 4-by-4-foot plastic fish bin, the Daily Sitka Sentinel reported Monday. Ryan Harris, 19, whose 28-foot boat tipped about two miles off Cape Edgecumbe, kept himself calm by singing songs: simple perennial favorites such as "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "Row, Row, Row Your Boat."

At one point the the bin dumped Harris and hit him in the head, but he was able to climb back in and stay balanced until a Coast Guard helicopter rescued him Saturday, 26 hours after the boat sank.

Harris said the worst thing during his ordeal was not knowing what happened to his fellow crew member, Stonie "Mac" Huffman of Sitka, who ended up donning a survival suit and floating to shore two hours before Harris' rescue. Huffman also spent the night in the open water.

Harris said also kept his cool by repeating for four hours straight: "I'm Ryan Hunter Harris and I'm not going to die here."

Next we head south to Washington state, where a story in the Seattle Times says a ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana has found an unlikely backer: The Children's Alliance, a Seattle-based advocacy group whose membership includes more than 100 social-service agencies. The group's reason for supporting Initiative 502?

"The status quo is not working for children, particularly children of color," he said. "Public policy ought to move us further toward racial equity and justice, and Initiative 502 is one step forward to that."

Gould goes on to say that African Americans are three times more likely to be arrested for marijuana, though whites and blacks use the drug at the same rates.